BUSHLAND, TEXAS -- The curriculum for next year's crop of Bushland High School Seniors went through some changes Tuesday night.
Their School Board voted to make a senior project mandatory before they may graduate.
What does that mean?
Starting next year, those students will be required to do research and present a senior project.
Bushland's Student Career Services Coordinator says they will then have to present that project to a panel of judges, where they will be graded, but Jacci Kleman says it will help Bushland students impress the colleges.
"I believe that senior project will set the bar higher and will allow our students to compete at a higher level, so that they are able to get accepted in the program that they choose, that they dream of."
How do students feel about that?
I caught up with a few of them to get their take on the new requirement.
"I was a little iffy at first when I first found out about it, but then I do think it'll help when we it comes to colleges like to just help us separate from others that might be looking to do the same things we are," said Braxton Wilcox a Bushland High School Junior.
And Bushland Junior Sarah Greenlee says she was overwhelmed at first by the idea, because she doesn't have her career path figured out yet, but she thinks she has narrowed it down to something she thinks will be fun.
"I'm going to go into the research center and I'm going to study some virus' that have infected the wheat, and that opened the door for me to get a summer job there."
Both Wilcox and Greenlee say they're excited for this class and Wilcox says, since he may go into nuclear pharmaceuticals, that he will probably do his project about something related to that.
And Kleman, who will be teaching the class, says she looks forward to helping the kids prepare for their futures.
